Sam Coffman is founder and lead instructor of The Human Path, which is an ecology-based school in the San Antonio area that teaches wilderness living and survival skills, outdoor fitness, self-defense, wilderness medicine, herbology, leadership and more.

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Sorry for the long break in entries. Things have been very busy on the working/teaching/family front. I wanted to post another entry on some of the outdoor fitness opportunities presented by natural objects such as trees, rocks, etc. Quadrupedal walking up a wobbly log – Excellent for upper and lower body strength First… the second […]
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Back to the subject of functional fitness, there is another great training accessory out there pretty much everywhere you look (unless you live in N. Texas or the desert): Trees. Here in the hill country, there is a tree that is far and away the best exercise tree I have ever seen. It is the […]
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Wilderness living skills require functional fitness. This is not exactly the same type of fitness you get from lifting weights at a gym, or even from running or biking around town. Functional fitness is fitness that is geared towards the actual strength, agility and mobility you need while living, hunting, eating and sleeping in the […]
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